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  1. Ther eis no market failre in thw water sector on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's goal is to get water to people, not make as much money as possible from people.

    Only an idiot wants to put resources needed for the most basic survival in the market.

  2. Re:compare water usage with "average"? on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 1

    Since average, and the way to calculate it are defined in the industry, changing it arbitrarily will be noticed.

  3. Re:Not video games on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    This isn't 'News For hipsters, stuff you did before it was cool.'

  4. Re:Wargames on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    The difference between a rut and a grave is about 5 and a half feet.

  5. Games on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    well, King of Tohyo is fun, as is sentinals of the Multiverse. Oh, video games? :)

    I'm playing 'Toyko Jungle' with my daughter, Loadout, Defense Grid, TF2, Garry's Mod with my Son.

  6. Re:I want a car on A New Car UI · · Score: 1

    Finally, a brave person to step up and let us know what a real car is. Thanks you brave sir, thank you for shooting off your mouth with inanities. Without people like you we would be hipster free. Won't anyone think of the hipsters?

    You closed minded git.

  7. If it's no tactile on A New Car UI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    people will have to look at it.
    Touch UI for cars is a bad idea. Dangerous, and will break cross model and manufacture consistency.

  8. Re:Are they saying the FCC isn't in the executive on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 4, Informative

    Correct. It is an independent regulatory agency.

    "So how about hurling metric boatloads of attorneys, engineers, sociologists or what have you, at the FCC, to convince them that ISPs are really common carriers?"
    How about that? have you sent them a letter? have you contact local experts to get them to send a letter? organize anything?

    Or do you just complain until someone else does all the work?
    And yes, logically they are common carriers.

  9. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 4, Informative

    when something sound ludicrous, you should look it up instead of blindly repeating it like some half-wit parrot.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics...

    The quote ois accurate, so I"m not sure why you are porting it. Oh Right, you are a half-wit parrot.

  10. Re:I do not think it means what you think it means on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 1

    You questions underlines your preconceived, and incorrect, notion of what cyborg means.

    It also show your ignorance of genetics, because we share a lot of genes with dogs.
    Guide dogs do not augment any senses. I don't think you understand how they work.

  11. Re:No. on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 0

    Cute, however maybe you should read the actual use of the word?

    Protip: as soon as it's defined as a person, and not an organism, what you are reading it likely to be wrong.

    Now explain to me why an electrical signal to our brain from your optical nerve is different then to your brain via any other nerve.

  12. Remember on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 1

    " magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."

    Terry Pratchett

  13. Re:Duh on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 1

    Oh, well if you read about it then no one should never write about it again because clearly everyone know it.

  14. Re:I do not think it means what you think it means on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 2

    A cyborg is an organism enhanced by technology. What the difference between information being automatically handled and the results getting to your brain via the optic nerve as opposed to any other nerves?
    They fact that I am doing things view the signal coming through the optic nerves opposed to other nerves doesn't really matter.

    "For the exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated homeostatic system unconsciously, we propose the term 'Cyborg'. - Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline"

    also:
    The purpose of the Cyborg, as well as his own homeostatic systems, is to provide an organizational system in which such robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel.

    http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-co...

  15. Re:Heat and noise.... on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 2

    Forget enclosures. Power up the device with no enclosure, give me the numbers at 1 meter distance.

    Now we have a COMMON bar to use to judge.

  16. Re:Heat and noise.... on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 1

    No, I've been saying they should do that for any femputer part with a fan.
    What's the noise and 1 meter at mid power and max power?
    TYVM

  17. Re:Maxwell? on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 1

    I got a lot of problems, but 99 ain't one of them.

  18. Re:No. on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 1

    Cyborg is a being with both human and mechanical parts; however that doesn't mean the mechanical parts need to be inside you.

  19. Re:A few problems... on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 0

    " Is SQL really that right language for encoding business logic? "

    Depends on use. Some business logic could be device independent. SO creating a trigger that can be used by any device makes life a little easier.

    "Triggers are kind of an anti-pattern."
    No they aren't. For the reason hosted above it's an easy way to handle the same problem with many devices.

  20. Re:The usual consulting snake oil on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 0

    ", it's done in SQL using triggers, causing immediate database vendor lock-in and creating a maintainability nightmare."
    Only if you don't know what you are doing. I've create many cross platform triggers.
    Properly organized code is the key to maintainability, regardless of language.

    "Sprinkling business logic around in the SQL instead of centralizing it in a much more suitable language for logic like Java is a completely terrible idea, unless you're an Oracle sales rep"
    you need to step away from the Java for a while. Centralizing the business rules can also be bad.

  21. Re:"What the internet was designed for" on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 1

    "Streaming video is easier than downloading large programs,"
    ummm.. nope.

    " as you only need to ship a certain amount per second"
    true in both cases.

    " rather than ship it all and only be able to use it when the last byte has arrived."
    let me guess, you only use windows and got into IT with a 'Learn x in 24 hours' book?

    Protip: you can use a file before it's completely downloaded. In fact, I use to download a very large file, and then start to up loaded to another system befor I've finished downloading.
    I'll assume you mind is blown and it's a puzzle you will never figure out.

  22. Re:Yea, ohter things could be good for you too on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 2

    What high crime rate? it's been decreasing for 40 years.

    " I can't trust the government to do very much right."
    the VAST majority of 'Government'* project are successful and honest. Less then 1% go over budget, or involve anything you can't trust.

    FCC needs to make the common carriers. Problem solved.

    The speed of innovation on the internet is highly exaggerated. What new innovation has come from the internet in the last 5 years?
    Of course, then internet is a serious of protocols, and the government is why it's so open and easy to use. But you go ahead and ignore the inconvenient facts.

    " and I don't see anyway for the latter to beneficially regulate the former."
    That's becasue you are either a shill, stupid, or void of any actual facts in the matter. I am assuming it's the latter.

    Look up the numbers.

    *There is no singular Government. There are a number of agencyies and bureau with their own rules.

  23. Re:Some simple questions on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 2

    All of which is irrelevant. If that say you have x bandwidth, then it's on them to provide it. If they can not provide it, they shouldn't sell it.

  24. Re:Thinking Outside The Box on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    CONTROL and neither confirm or deny the quality, or existence, of such cone no matter how badly it operates.

  25. Can't be done. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 2

    We live in an age where even Casino's have given up on not letting people take pictures in a casino.

    I suspect the person wants to sell pictured from their own photographer to the patrons.

    Just take better pictures.